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pseudofeminine

adj

Etymology

From pseudo- + feminine.

  1. derived from *dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-eh₂✻ — “(the one) nursing, breastfeeding”
  2. derived from fēminīnus
  3. derived from feminin,feminine
  4. inherited from feminine,femynyne,femynyn
  5. prefixed as pseudofeminine — “pseudo + feminine”

Definitions

  1. feminine or apparently feminine in certain aspects, but not truly feminine

    • Peter was not a "drag queen" as such, but ever since moving north from Hollywood had adopted several of their witty, pseudofeminine ways of speech […]
    • As a result, nouns of this kind are likely to be interpreted and treated as feminine. Thus, Mifsud calls them pseudo-feminine collective Semitic nouns.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pseudofeminine. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA